Paper cap



A. BOTSFORD. Paper Gap.

(No Model.)

Patented Sept. 21,1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT BOTSFORD, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

PAPER CAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,332, dated September 21, 1880.

Application filed June 25, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT BOTSFORD, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Paper Gaps, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention relates to the peculiar construction of a paper cap designed to be used by operatives employed in factories and with its sides imprinted with advertisements.

The invention consists in the construction of the cap adapted to be used as an advertising medium, substantially as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 represents the sheet of paper from which the cap is made. Fig. 2 is a representation, in perspective, of the completed cap.

The paper cap is formed as follows: The lower edge of the strip of paper is folded over longitudinally to form the flap 0, and the two ends a a are folded transversely to form the front and rear ends, I), and are brought together and cemented with one end resting in the bottom fold made by the flap 6. The flaps (No model.)

0 c and I) b are then folded inwardly to form the top of the cap, and are secured together. The top of the cap is perforated at d to allow a free circulation of air. By this arrangement there are two thicknesses of paper all around the edge to strengthen it, and four thicknesses on the front, where most of the perspiration gathers and where it would be the most easily torn.

Before the cap is formed, however, any advertisements desired, together with any preferred ornamentation, may be printed upon those parts which form the nearly-vertical sides of the cap.

What I claim as my invention is The paper cap herein described, consisting of a slip of paper having the longitudinal flap e at its lower edge, front and rear flaps, b b, and side flaps, 0 c, the whole folded and secured together substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT BOTSFORD. v Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, THEO. S. DAY. 

